Customs Declare
HS 2022 subheading

HS code 8421.21: Water filtration machines

HS code 8421.21 covers: Machinery; for filtering or purifying water. It is a subheading of heading 8421, in chapter 84.

Where 8421.21 sits in the tariff

The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonized System. Countries and regions add their own digits after them.

  1. Chapter

    84 Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof

  2. Heading

    8421Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases

  3. Subheading

    8421.21 Machinery; for filtering or purifying water

Other subheadings under heading 8421

  • 8421.11Centrifuges; cream separators
  • 8421.12Centrifuges; clothes-dryers
  • 8421.19Centrifuges; n.e.c. in heading no. 8421, including centrifugal dryers (but not clothes-dryers)
  • 8421.21Machinery; for filtering or purifying waterThis page
  • 8421.22Machinery; for filtering or purifying beverages other than water
  • 8421.23Machinery; filtering or purifying machinery, oil or petrol filters for internal combustion engines
  • 8421.29Machinery; for filtering or purifying liquids, n.e.c. in item no. 8421.2
  • 8421.31Machinery; intake air filters for internal combustion engines
  • 8421.32Machinery; catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines
  • 8421.39Machinery; for filtering or purifying gases, other than intake air filters, catalytic converters or particulate filters for internal combustion engines
  • 8421.91Centrifuges; parts thereof, including parts for centrifugal dryers
  • 8421.99Machinery; parts for filtering or purifying liquids or gases

How tariffs divide 8421.21 further

National and regional tariffs add digits after the six shared ones, splitting this subheading into more specific lines. The tables list every line we hold for 8421.21 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union1
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States1
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom2
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India3
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule4
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur1
Turkey GTIPTürkiye1
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt4
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa2
Lines in total20

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 21 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 21 00 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 2 lines

CodeDescription
8421 21 00 10Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water – For use in civil aircraft
8421 21 00 90Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 3 lines

CodeDescription
8421 21 10apparatus for liquids: – For filtering or purifying water : – Ion exchanger plant or apparatus
8421 21 20apparatus for liquids: – For filtering or purifying water : – Household type filters
8421 21 90apparatus for liquids: – For filtering or purifying water : – Other

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 4 lines

CodeDescription
8421 21 10 00 01Machinery & apparatus for filtering or purifying water, domestic type. - Electrical machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water for domestic use
8421 21 10 99 99Machinery & apparatus for filtering or purifying water, domestic type. - Non-electrical machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water for domestic use
8421 21 90 00 01Machinery & apparatus for filtering or purifying water, other than those for domestic use. - Other of electrical machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water for non-domestic use
8421 21 90 99 99Machinery & apparatus for filtering or purifying water, other than those for domestic use. - Other of non-electrical machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water for non-domestic use

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
8421 21 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 21 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids: – For filtering or purifying water

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 21 00 00 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids: – Of a kind used for filtering or purifying water:

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 4 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 21 10 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for water, for household use.
8421 21 91 00Machinery and filters for kidney dialysis.
8421 21 99 10Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for water, for food use.
8421 21 99 90Other filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for water, other than the above.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 2 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
8421 21 10 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water – For domestic use
8421 21 90 00Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids – For filtering or purifying water – Other

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